Top Moments of the 2009 Season: Round One - Ingram vs Barron
by Todd on Feb 5, 2010 7:00 AM CST
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With all the hubbub of National Signing Day behind us, we're back to reliving the best moments of the 2009 season. P.J. Fitzgerald's tackle in the SEC Championship Game advanced to the second round over Marquis Johnson's redefining performance against South Carolina. That was actually probably the toughest choice for me so far. Full disclosure, I went with Fitzgerald. As much as I loved Johnson proving all his doubters wrong, that was as close to a form tackle as you will ever get from a punter and the fact it knocked James out of the game made me all giddy that even our kickers are out there making asses quit. Today we've got Ingram's final TD in the national title game that effectively sealed the deal for us, and Mark Barron's gravity defying pass break up at Mississippi State. Vote away.
Ingram's Final TD
Barron can FLY
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Exactly.
"Let's go be champions, boys!" - Greg McElroy
(Formerly SugarBowl93)
by RememberTheRoseBowl on Feb 5, 2010 7:28 AM CST up reply actions
That's funny
I’ve been thinking since the beginning that Ingram’s TD was easily one of my top 4. I guess it depends on what this tournament is about. Is it best highlight reel moment? Most incredible display of athleticism? Play that will be most remembered 20 years from now? Or, as the wording in the poll box says, “Which moment made you happier?” I’m voting based on the question as asked, and there is no way Barron tipping away a pass against Mississippi State made me anywhere near as happy as Ingram scoring the TD to clinch the national title.
They are all good, and tough choices.
Usually it’s a matter of timing. Ingram has the timing in this one being the national title game.
But I had to go with Barron. That pass break up was just crazy and probably one of the best pbu’s I’ve ever seen in my life.
Go with "made you happier"
All the plays are good, highlight reel stuff, but if you’re like me you attach emotions and meaning to certain plays even if they are by and large insignificant. I went with Barron, too.
Roll Bama Roll - The Champagne of Bama Blogs.
Exactly....
I was in Pasadena and at the moment he scored the touchdown I knew we were champions, but in my mind, the fumble by anders had already confirmed that… my brother and I were hugging each other and everyone around us as Ingy scored in the background. For the State game I was at a friends wedding reception with 20 State Alum in the lobby watching the game and when they showed the replay of his athleticism, there were groans wondering how they even scored the 3 earlier. So to prove your point Todd, Barron made me happier even though the play may not have been as important.
My final four is a pretty easy selection
Or I guess I should say top four since they’ll meet too early to all make it to the semifinals. But in terms of moments that made me happiest, it’s obviously the plays where we beat UT and AU (Rocky Block & Cody 5), and the two plays that clinched the national title (Ander’s Forced Fumble & Ingram’s Final TD).
C'mon guys and gals...
don’t let sentimentality get in the way of making the right choice here. Ingram will have his shot at the championship with other great plays, but Barron’s catch was awesomeness defined. Ingram’s was a standard TD run that just happened to be his last one at Bama.
"Let's go be champions, boys!" - Greg McElroy
(Formerly SugarBowl93)
by RememberTheRoseBowl on Feb 5, 2010 7:30 AM CST reply actions
that was a beastly play by barron
ingram was great because it iced the NC for us, but the pure athleticism shown by Barron is crazy. i would have been down for the count if i went horizontal like that and hit like he did.
barron FTW
As far as which was the better play, then it is Barron by far
However if we are using the “made you happier standard” then I have to go with the play that clinched the BCS for us.
but that was the touchdown by Marcel Dareus.
That 24th point held up.
University of Tennessee : Where Schadenfreude Happens
Yeah, but I didn't know that at the time
In a few minute span I went from “Oh crap” to Anders’s sack, to Ingram’s TS, to “Woo Hoo BCS!.” If Texas hadn’t cut the lead to 3 with the ball prior to that sequence then yeah, it is definitely Barron’s play but the swing in emotion, topped by Ingram’s td is going to be hard to beat for me (in terms of “What made you happy”)
It doesn't look like Barron could have done have done it better.
That is a great slow-mo moment, where he seems to lay out in full extension and float through the air.
Beautiful!
Ingram’s TD made me happy, but I did think that we would get it.
Wow, tied at 86 when I voted
for Barron. It’s an obvious choice for me. Ingram’s run was the icing on the cake, but Barron displayed such athleticism.
Yeah, I was shocked it was tied at 84 when I voted
I was kind of wondering if anybody would say Barron tipping away a pass against Mississippi State made them happier than Ingram scoring the game clinching TD in the national title game.
I thought this whole tournament thing would be kind of predictable in most cases, but I guess that’s why the play the games hold the votes.
still tied at 98 when I voted.
I voted for Barron. That was easily one of the best PBU I’ve ever seen in my life. While Ingram’s TD made me happy at the time, just watching the play of Barron and knowing he plays for Alabama etc make me alot happier.
Today redemption is spelled
M-A-R-K. Actually, the whole 2009 season was redemptive for Mark. He definitely stepped his game up.
I can't believe some idiot is still allowed to be a member on SBN
and flame every chance they get.
You play fast, you play strong, you go out there and dominate the guy you play against, and make his ass quit! That's our trademark, that's our MO as a team, aight, that's what people know us as! - Nick Saban, 2008
by BamaReturns07 on Feb 5, 2010 9:19 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Voted for Barron...
That play was AMAZING!
Mark’s extension was beautiful. The slow-mo is what makes it…
I voted for Ingram...
because it “made me happier”, which is how I understand we’re supposed to make our choices.
But I believe Barron’s pass break-up showed the kind of athleticism people write poems about.
by Queen of the Universe on Feb 5, 2010 9:16 AM CST reply actions
Ingram FTW
Much more important, as we romped on MSU. Plus, there is this:
You play fast, you play strong, you go out there and dominate the guy you play against, and make his ass quit! That's our trademark, that's our MO as a team, aight, that's what people know us as! - Nick Saban, 2008
mine too!
And it pisses off all the Texas fans in my office to no end. Before this it was the scoreboard :)
by Queen of the Universe on Feb 5, 2010 10:52 AM CST up reply actions
Barron's my boy.
8 or 13 It's more than your school. You can call Bama's fans what you want while your thinking of the national title.
voted for mark
(HA – just realized they are BOTH mark) INGRAM, but am shocked BARRON didn’t hyperextend his elbows and possibly break his arms on the fall. one of the 1st things they taught my daughters in gymnastics was how to fall and you are NEVER suppose to try to break a backwards fall with your arms. better to have the wind knocked slap out of you.
love the PBU but i don’t think its beauty and magnificence was apparent until the replay which disqualifies it for me.
"You have to create 6 seconds of hell each play..."
Coach Nick Saban
under the strict crtieria
Of which one made me happier, Mark Ingram. Of which one is OMG MORE AWES, Mark Barron. But the Heisman Winner got my vote.
Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world.
I've tried to find a large image
of the Barron PBU for my desktop, that sight of him laid full out in mid-air and making the play is burned into my memory. Again, one of the most athletic plays I’ve seen – I swear there have been more plays like that (and Richardson against Arky, Upchurch’s TD against VT, etc) than in any other season of Bama football I’ve seen back to the early 80’s.
University of Tennessee : Where Schadenfreude Happens
Interesting
The offensive plays seem to be getting all of the love in this tourney. I’m a sucker for a brilliant D play though. Barron all the way!!!
MARK
National Championship, Heisman curse banished, Mark Ingram Day, it’s all there, encapsulated in the second effort of that touchdown. Roll Tide. Proud moment, probably the first time I breathed a happy sigh that evening in the second half, and opened a celebratory cold beer. Roll tide indeed.
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